Significados de tuareg groups en inglés

The MNLA was formed last autumn when several Tuareg groups merged.

Tuareg groups say the reforms did not go far enough.

Negotiations between government representatives and the Tuareg groups resumed in Algeria's capital Algiers this week.

Tuareg groups signed a comprehensive peace deal in early October, with most factions agreeing to disarm.

The Tuareg groups, who initially worked with the Islamists, were later sidelined by their better armed allies.

As well as AQIM, the area is home to a simmering rebellion by Tuareg groups demanding greater autonomy.

Representatives of two separatist Tuareg groups inked the agreement, witnessed by the mediators at the Burkina Faso presidential palace.

Tuareg groups then allied themselves with al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels to seize control of the northern two-thirds of the country.

In recent months, the area has been the scene of clashes between rival armed Tuareg groups and their allies in northern Mali.